Cheeseburger emoji debate; Lennar’s big deal; toymaker troubles

Chronicle Staff and News Services

Updated 2:18 pm, Monday, October 30, 2017

The great cheeseburger

emoji debate on Twitter

If you want to see one debate that symbolizes the world of Twitter, consider the tongue-in-cheek one that erupted over the weekend concerning Apple and Google. There was a little meat and a lot of cheesiness. GeekWire reported that author Thomas Baekdal started it by tweeting a side-by-side comparison of the Apple and Google cheeseburger emoji. Apple has the cheese on top of the meat, while Google (gasp!) has it below. Google CEO Sundar Pichai then promised that his company would address the issue — if there was clear agreement about the correct stacking order. People from Microsoft and Facebook even chimed in, showing their own emoji. One guess, based on tech history: The emoji won’t be compatible with one another for, oh, a thousand years.

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That’s the value of the merger announced Monday between Lennar Corp. and CalAtlantic Group, forming the United States’ largest home builder. The deal would create a behemoth with around 240,000 building plots in 21 states, a market value of about $18 billion and combined revenue of $17 billion over the past 12 months. Lennar is building about a dozen communities in the Bay Area, including the San Francisco Shipyard at Hunters Point.

Not playing around

There’s some trouble in toyland, and companies are blaming Toys R Us. Mattel, the maker of Barbie dolls and Hot Wheels cars, reported disappointing third-quarter results last week and said it was hurt by Toys R Us’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing last month. Hasbro, the maker of My Little Pony and Monopoly, had also blamed weak results on the Toys R Us situation.

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